Headline has me thinking about my depression again. That never happens.

Ugh. My family wants me to be drugged. Have an appointment this week...

GaryPDX: It'll be so cool when the government takes over health care and label 1 in 5 Americans truly mentally ill because of the medication they take.

And take away their right to vote Republican.

Why wouldn't they? You can go to almost any primary physician in America and walk out with a script for any number of drugs.

Its the reason you can go in any pharmacy and see people flood in with Prozac and Oxycontin scripts like they're going out of style. It's not the increase in mental and physical issues...it's the fact that it takes NO real diagnosis to get these drugs.

Dr.Knockboots: 1 8900 in 9000 don't even need the meds, they just use them as a crutch, a talking point, or a reason to make people give them attention.

/my opinion..I'm SURE I'm wrong.

This is why we shouldn't have single payer healthare or insurance.

Sanity is over-rated, question your reality every chance you get.

I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully.

That few? Why do I always get odd looks from medical professionals when I answer "what prescriptions do you regularly take" with "None"?

Maybe I look like I ought to be medicated.

The pharmaceutical industry sees your wild PR gambit and ups you 2 additional new disorders, per the DSM, that can magically be managed with medication.

I wouldn't be the one in five except for one thing: Getting off the damn drugs is brutal.

The original issue I started taking the meds for is long gone but the bloody withdrawal is horrible. I've been slowly reducing my dosage but it's taking forever to ween myself off the damn things.

The other 4 haven't heard of Justin Bieber.

As mental illness affects roughly 20% of the populace, this is totally not shocking, and I'm absolutely not outraged by this non-news.

BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully.

Pffft.....bourbon or whiskey FTW.

BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully.

I wish i could, this whiskey is killing me but some plants are illegal in my backwards state.

Yet marijuana, a goddamn plant, is illegal.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully.

Pffft.....bourbon or whiskey FTW.

Ugh. I don't drink much. Alcohol makes me feel miserable. Weed FTW.

BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully for whatever I have.

Sam says ditto ;-P

BurnShrike: Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully.

Pffft.....bourbon or whiskey FTW.

Ugh. I don't drink much. Alcohol makes me feel miserable. Weed FTW.

I drink BECAUSE it makes me feel miserable. Amidoinitrite?

My ex told me I drank too much. 2-4 beers per evening most nights. But I take no meds, don't have any psych issues, sleep like a baby, and make it to work each day. She didn't drink, but she took Prozac, Ambien, and Xanax. I'll stick to beer, being single, and not having anyone biatch at me.

Arklop: BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully for whatever I have.

Sam says ditto ;-P

Yeah, that's true. I smoke it when I have a cold, or the flu, or my head hurts, or I'm bored. It treats a lot of things.

I wouldn't be surprised. That stuff gives one dry mouth and it seems like in the last decade no one can go an hour without sucking on a water bottle.

I don't take my meds because BANANA GAKGAKGAK I really feel fine SNIRK and I'm totally normal WUBWUBWUB.

caddisfly: My ex told me I drank too much. 2-4 beers per evening most nights. But I take no meds, don't have any psych issues, sleep like a baby, and make it to work each day. She didn't drink, but she took Prozac, Ambien, and Xanax. I'll stick to beer, being single, and not having anyone biatch at me.

2-4 beers is perfectly okay, it's just getting blotto every night is probably not good.

Staring out of the depression cave, being sad at this thread.

/failing grad school
//no insurance
///not even uni insurance, because I'm barred from enrolling
////hooray distance ed courses :(
//arm slashies

Pretty much everyone I know uses some sort of big pharma induced reality crutch. It's called life people, maybe you should try it sometime.

/I'll stick with the occasional gin & tonic as my anti-anxiety drugs, thanks...

sage37: Ugh. My family wants me to be drugged. Have an appointment this week...

Why?
Are you non-violent?
Are you adult age?
What do you want?

The really fun thing (from a documentary I watched awhile ago) is that we're all taking them, even if it's just in very small quantities.

Seems that water treatment facilities purify the water to remove harmful pathogens. Unfortunately, all of the people on anti-anxiety and anti-depressants (among others) are pissing them into the water supply, where they remain after the water has been purified.

/google "antidepressants in water supply" for more fun stuff

enik: /I'll stick with the occasional gin & tonic as my anti-anxiety drugs, thanks


*fist bump*

I've been wondering if Rick Perry is medicated. It doesn't make sense for him to be "drunk" on stage. I can't see his handlers giving him a shot of tequilla before a debate. I can see them giving him a Xanax to cope with the stress. I can see them I think he is using a barbituate like Xanax. Barbituates have a similar affect as alcohol. The cause slurred speech. They can cause confusion.

These are just a few of the images we've recorded. And you can see, it wasn't what we thought. There's been no war here and no terraforming event. The environment is stable. It's the Pax. The G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate that we added to the air processors. It was supposed to calm the population, weed out aggression. Well, it works. The people here stopped fighting. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.

BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully.

*high-five*

/pun intended

Jake Havechek: There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die.

"About a tenth of a percent of the population had the opposite reaction to the Pax."

Reverend Monkeypants: I present to you:
"For profit" healthcare in one of it's purest forms.
(ta-da!)

0/10

Jake Havechek 2011-11-16 02:50:21 PM

Yet marijuana, a goddamn plant, is illegal.

Thats because marijuana grows naturally in your closet and the big pharm companies cant make a buck off it.

flahorsegirl: I don't want to take Prozac or anything like that.

prozac is rough on your body. i suggest zoloft instead.

/not a doctor

"I have this radical idea that if you treat a patient with respect and listen to what he's trying to tell you, you just might reach him."



/Been on Paxil for close to 10 years now, when I probably should've gone with psychotherapy. Tried weening off the medication under a nurse practitioner's direction a couple years ago and became suicidal, so I'm still on it for the time being.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian: BurnShrike: I self-medicate for my anxiety disorder with marijuana. It works wonderfully.

Pffft.....bourbon or whiskey FTW.

This. Makers ftw.

Jake Havechek: Yet marijuana, a goddamn plant, is illegal.

Of course it is...big Pharma would never have it any other way. Also, local, state and of course the Feds make too much money on the War On Drugs TM.